Method of making handles for ropes



Dec. 19, 1922;

v w. H. FULLINGT ON. I METHOD OF MAKING HANDLES FOR ROPESf FILED SEPT,7, I921.

Patented Dec. 19, 19232.

rinses METHOD OF MAKING HANDLES Eon ROPES.

Application filed September 7, 1921. Serial No. 498,967.

1/ all whom it may concern Be it known that l, (inmost H. FULpInG- TON,a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county ofCuyahoga and 5 State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Methods of ft Taking Han lles for Hopes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to skipping ropes,

and involves or includes a new process of,

making the handles thereof, and altho particularly adapted for makingskipping ropes it is applicable to other ropes where It 18 desired toform an enlargement or bound portion at the end or the rope.

In making skipping ropes, and in staying the ends of a rope, it iscommon to wind the rope with a binding of small cord. This Is done atterthe rope is made. By the present 20 invention the binding isaccomplishedun an operation continuoijls with the formation ot the rope.

The invention is illustrated in the accoz-npanying drawings in whichFigure l. is a plan of a completed ropc. l 3 and are views showing therope in the procoss ot constructimi. Fig. '1'; is a section on the line4E iof Figs. 2 and 3. Figs. 5 and are sections onthe lines 5-5 and (36of Figs. l and 3 respectively.

The manner of making the rope isas follows:

A rope consisting of tour (or any othcr plural number) of strands istwisted in the usual manner, and of these strands three are indicated at6 in the drawings, and these strands form the completeorstanding part iof the rope after it is completed. The fourth strand, which is indicatedat 7, forms the handles. This strand, after all the strands are twistedtogether is severed at the middle of the rope, as indicated in Fig. 2,and then the ends of this severed strand are forced back or outwardlyover the remainingil'hree 4,5 strands by a pressing action parallel tothe axis of the rope, which'results in the strand 7 being fulled up tothe form of a coil,

and these coils constitute the enlargement or handles, when they arepressed'or stripped out to the ends of the rope. In Fig. 2 the strand Iis shown at the commencement of this operation, having been cut to maketwo free ends, and in Fig. the process is shownpartly completed, thecoils being forced outwardly toward the ends of the rope, the strandbeing picked up from the twisted rope and assuming the form of a closedcoil which gathers additional windings as it approaches the ends of therope until it is v finally stopped at said ends as by metal rings orfastenings 10 at the ends, The completed coil or winding i indicated at7 in Fig. 1, and thefree ends thereof may be spliced into the standingstrands 6 or otherwise fastened by any convenient device to preventunwinding. The coil or winding thus produced forms a very convenientflexiblehandle and also acts to bind the ends of the rope. The operationmay be rather quickly performed by stripping the severed strands alongthe rope until it falls up to the completed coils at the ends.

1. A rope consistingof a plurality of strands, one of said strands beingsevered and fulled up to form a binlfling coil at the end of the rope.

2. A skipping rope composed. of a plurality of strands, one of saidstrands being severed and failed up in the form of coils around the endsof the rope, thereby forming handles.

3. The method of forming a binding at the end of a rope, comprisingsevering one of the strands of the rope and fulling the same up in theform of a coil at the end of the rope.

4E. The method of making handles for a skipping rope, comprisingsevering one of the strands of the rope and falling the sections of saidstrand up to opposite ends of the rope, forming close coils around theremaining strands of the rope at said ends.

5. The method of making a skipping rope, comprising twisting a pluralityof strands together, severing oneof said strands, at about the middle ofthe rope, and falling up the severed sections of said strand 't'rom themiddle toward the ends of the rope, thereby forming coils around theends of the rope, said coils serving as handles.

6. The method of binding the end of a In testimony whereof, I do afiixmy signature 1n presence of two WltIlGSSQS WILLIAM H. FULLINGTON.

Witnesses:

JOH A. BOMMHARDT,

EDWARD J. HoBDAY.

